April 9, “Putting Our Needs First” Includes Our Need for Relationships

Thought for today: The Fifth Tool of DA  is about creating a spending plan that puts our needs first.  It doesn’t guarantee that our needs will always be met; it simply implies that our money will be allocated according to our needs as opposed to the needs of our creditors. This principle can apply to all of our plans, […]

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February 19, Why Is a Spending Plan the Best Way to Bring Clarity, Balance, Humility and Realism to My Life?

Thought for today: Practicing Tool Five corresponds to compiling our Eighth Step list. Just as in Step Eight we don’t actually do any amends (that’s done in Step Nine), it isn’t until the next tool, (Tool Six, “Action Plan”), that we actually have to change anything in our living arrangements. In Tool Five we are […]

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